China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 156 Strong Opposition

"800 million yuan?"

"You mean the production cost of this movie will reach 800 million yuan?" Luo Yiming, manager of Tianrun Film's investment department, interrupted Xu Sheng who was explaining and asked in disbelief.

In fact, it is not just the representatives of Tianrun Film and could not believe their ears. United Cinema, Fantasy and Penguin Video were also surprised.

Qin Zhonghe, who was the only Guoying, looked calm because he had known the cost of production of "Gravity".

Chen Jingxing's expression was normal, and he seemed to have no concern about the impact of this astronomical figure on everyone in the conference room.

"No doubt, it's 800 million yuan."

The representative sent by Fantasy World.com is Chen Jingxing’s old acquaintance, Zhang Jingyan.

This veteran who has been in the industry for decades also looked at Chen Jingxing with surprise: "What are you talking about is a real 800 million, not a claimed 800 million cost?"

In the film and television industry, it is a common phenomenon to inject investment costs during promotion and distribution. Normally, it is considered honest to inject one-third of the water, and it is not uncommon to double the water.

If it is a real investment of 800 million yuan, it will make ordinary audiences feel outrageous without injecting water. Asking 10 people, 9 people must say that this is money laundering.

At this time, filming a movie with an investment of 800 million yuan, and it is not a sequel to a successful big IP, that is a good negative. If it is a shareholder of a listed company, it may even report to the China Securities Regulatory Commission that the company is suspected of money laundering.

The representative of United Cinema also echoed: "Why doesn't DreamWorks continue to make small and medium-sized movies? Mr. Chen, the fundamental reason why DreamWorks has such a high valuation and can raise funds twice in a year is to make a big profit by small profits.

The business model is favored by the industry.

If he spread out "Gravity" first, not to mention the amount of 370 million yuan raised, 37 million yuan would be a big deal.

Qin Zhong and the old god said at this time: "There is no need to be so pessimistic and negative. Everyone has seen the achievements of Xiao Chen in the past. The current global box office of "Signal" should exceed 1.5 billion, let's not put it.

Their eyes are limited to China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia are all large ticket warehouses, not to mention the North American market.

Chen Jingxing secretly felt glad in his heart about the fierce reaction from Tianrun Pictures and United Theater. Fortunately, he had obtained the second round of financing with a diversified development strategy - although this diversified development was not all a fool.

Everyone is an insider in the industry. I think you should have some idea about the number of such special effects lenses. 800 million is already a very cost-effective price. We have contacted legalcy, the top special effects studio in the United States. The price comparison of this company

Both Industrial Light and Magic and Vita Digital are lower, so it is difficult for us to find a special effects company that can produce such special effects and has a lower price than it is. I think the production cost is no longer compressed."

And isn’t Gravity a real heavy industry movie? I think the film market in other countries and regions still has great potential for such a special effects blockbuster.”

It would be fine if I really laundered money, but judging from this attitude, Chen Jingxing must take real action.

The so-called "blockbuster movie good news" has a certain limit. The main theme blockbuster Mekong River with an investment of 200 million yuan, and it is also produced by Guo Film, which is a good news.

Director Chen, I admire your talent very much. I also admit that there are few domestic directors who have achieved box office results, but I still want to say that this project is only capable of producing in Hollywood, and even if Hollywood manufacturers are capable of producing it,

I bet they won't be willing to launch projects either. I wonder if you have heard of this famous quote from Hollywood: 'Investing in original scripts is about doing charity', and this so-called space science fiction movie is still a $100 million investment

Original script.

The profit margins of these three movies produced by DreamWorks are far higher than those of other film companies. This is the core competitiveness of DreamWorks. Mr. Chen, that's not what you told us before financing.

Of course, in a few years, 800 million will not be so shocking, but Chen Jingxing doesn't want to wait any longer.

And this project called Gravity is obviously beyond reasonable scope.”

The project "Gravity" is a huge and completely unworthy adventure, with the cost and risks far beyond the normal range. According to Mr. Xu just explained, the special effects production cycle of this movie may last as long as one year

, that means it will only be released in at least 2016. 800 million yuan will hit this project for two years. This is not a decision that a normal-minded film company should make.

As a shareholder of DreamWorks, I must speak out my opinion on behalf of United Cinemas.

Luo Yiming of Tianrun Film did not intend to debate with Chen Jingxing how to compress the production cost of "Georgeousness". He asked incomprehensiblely: "Sorry, this is not a matter of whether to reduce the cost or not. I just feel very good about this project.

confuse.

Chen Jingxing seemed to be ready, and Wen Yan said: "Of course it's not a claim, it's a real production cost, it's even high or low. And you've just seen that CG preview, and the whole movie has been in such a space for 90 minutes.

In the background, I can say no exaggeration that every frame and every second is a special effect shot.

Although Qin Zhonghe was in a state of excitement when Chen Jingxing had just launched the project "Gravity" for a short time, he did not think about the production cost of the movie. After all, for him, the helm of the national film industry,

Even a film project worth 200 million to 300 million would not surprise him.

Let’s talk about the Chinese film market. Although we have not found our comic-adapted movies and have not established many large IPs, we are happy to invest in original scripts, but it needs to be within a reasonable limit.

If DreamWorks is a listed company at this time, once the news of the project "Georgement" is spread, the stock will definitely plummet.

Other directors can't get in. "Signal" and "Fatal Identity" have been in twice. What did the New Yorker say? Director Chen was the biggest discovery in the world's film industry in 2014, which shows that the North American market can be expected.

That's right.

If you put 800 million yuan in the bank and deposit it for two years, you can talk about a good interest, and you can earn at least 70 to 80 million yuan!"

But he had served as the producer of countless commercial blockbusters, and then he soon realized how difficult it is to realize such a science fiction movie with all the scenes taking place in outer space.

The cost of special effects production is probably astronomical. Then he called Chen Jingxing and finally got the real budget figure after repeated temptations.

Although he was shocked, it did not dispel his enthusiasm, but instead made him even more excited, because he realized that this was probably an important milestone project in the development of commercial films in China. Anyway, Chen Jingxing had the first words, DreamWorks could bear at least half of it.

Since the risk is not unshared, Qin Zhonghe decided to take a gamble.

However, although he expressed his support for Chen Jingxing, he could only sell out the overseas market. It is still difficult to believe what Chen Jingxing once told him that it can recover costs by relying solely on the domestic box office, or even make profits.

(End of this chapter)